- 17 Oct, 2007 40 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Based on ideas of Andrew: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2 Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate. This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer. Andrea proposed something similar: http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/ The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than that the two approaches appear quite similar. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Scale writeback cache per backing device, proportional to its writeout speed. By decoupling the BDI dirty thresholds a number of problems we currently have will go away, namely: - mutual interference starvation (for any number of BDIs); - deadlocks with stacked BDIs (loop, FUSE and local NFS mounts). It might be that all dirty pages are for a single BDI while other BDIs are idling. By giving each BDI a 'fair' share of the dirty limit, each one can have dirty pages outstanding and make progress. A global threshold also creates a deadlock for stacked BDIs; when A writes to B, and A generates enough dirty pages to get throttled, B will never start writeback until the dirty pages go away. Again, by giving each BDI its own 'independent' dirty limit, this problem is avoided. So the problem is to determine how to distribute the total dirty limit across the BDIs fairly and efficiently. A DBI that has a large dirty limit but does not have any dirty pages outstanding is a waste. What is done is to keep a floating proportion between the DBIs based on writeback completions. This way faster/more active devices get a larger share than slower/idle devices. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [hugh@veritas.com: Fix occasional hang when a task couldn't get out of balance_dirty_pages] Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Given a set of objects, floating proportions aims to efficiently give the proportional 'activity' of a single item as compared to the whole set. Where 'activity' is a measure of a temporal property of the items. It is efficient in that it need not inspect any other items of the set in order to provide the answer. It is not even needed to know how many other items there are. It has one parameter, and that is the period of 'time' over which the 'activity' is measured. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Count per BDI writeback pages. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Count per BDI reclaimable pages; nr_reclaimable = nr_dirty + nr_unstable. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide scalable per backing_dev_info statistics counters. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks [akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
provide a way to tell lockdep about percpu_counters that are supposed to be used from irq safe contexts. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
alloc_percpu can fail, propagate that error. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide an accurate version of percpu_counter_read. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
s/percpu_counter_sum/&_positive/ Because its consitent with percpu_counter_read* Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide a method to set a percpu counter to a specified value. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
percpu_counter is a s64 counter, make _add consitent. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Because the current batch setup has an quadric error bound on the counter, allow for an alternative setup. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Hugh spotted that some code does: percpu_counter_add(&counter, -unsignedlong) which, when the amount argument is of type s32, sort-of works thanks to two's-complement. However when we'd change the type to s64 this breaks on 32bit machines, because the promotion rules zero extend the unsigned number. Provide percpu_counter_sub() to hide the s64 cast. That is: percpu_counter_sub(&counter, foo) is equal to: percpu_counter_add(&counter, -(s64)foo); Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
s/percpu_counter_mod/percpu_counter_add/ Because its a better name, _mod implies modulo. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three issues: 1) inter device starvation 2) stacked device deadlocks 3) inter process starvation 1 and 2 are a direct result from removing the global dirty limit and using per device dirty limits. By giving each device its own dirty limit is will no longer starve another device, and the cyclic dependancy on the dirty limit is broken. In order to efficiently distribute the dirty limit across the independant devices a floating proportion is used, this will allocate a share of the total limit proportional to the device's recent activity. 3 is done by also scaling the dirty limit proportional to the current task's recent dirty rate. This patch: nfs: remove congestion_end(). It's redundant, clear_bdi_congested() already wakes the waiters. Signed-off-by:
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Mark Nelson authored
Update dump_task_altivec() (which has so far never been put to use) so that it dumps the Altivec/VMX registers (VR[0] - VR[31], VSCR and VRSAVE) in the same format as the ptrace get_vrregs(), and add the appropriate glue typedef and #defines to make it work. A new note type of NT_PPC_VMX was chosen to be 0x100 (arbitrarily) because it allows the low range values to be used for more generic purposes and 0x100 seems an adequate starting point for PowerPC extensions. Signed-off-by:
Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Nelson authored
Replace NT_PRXFPREG with ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE in the coredump code which allows for more flexibility in the note type for the state of 'extended floating point' implementations in coredumps. New note types can now be added with an appropriate #define. This does #define ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE to be NT_PRXFPREG in all current users so there's are no change in behaviour. This will let us use different note types on powerpc for the Altivec/VMX state that some PowerPC cpus have (G4, PPC970, POWER6) and for the SPE (signal processing extension) state that some embedded PowerPC cpus from Freescale have. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Try to fix the mess created by sysfs braindamage. - refactor code internal to fs/namei.c a little to avoid too much duplication: o __lookup_hash_kern is renamed back to __lookup_hash o the old __lookup_hash goes away, permission checks moves to the two callers o useless inline qualifiers on above functions go away - lookup_one_len_kern loses it's last argument and is renamed to lookup_one_noperm to make it's useage a little more clear - added kerneldoc comments to describe lookup_one_len aswell as lookup_one_noperm and make it very clear that no one should use the latter ever. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: WOL bugfix for 3c59x.c skge 1.12 skge: add a debug interface skge: eeprom support skge: internal stats skge: XM PHY handling fixes skge: changing MTU while running causes problems skge: fix ram buffer size calculation gianfar: Fix compile regression caused by 09f75cd7 net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes bonding: two small fixes for IPoIB support e1000e: don't poke PHY registers to retreive link status e1000e: fix error checks e1000e: Fix debug printk macro tokenring/3c359.c: fixed array index problem [netdrvr] forcedeth: remove in-driver copy of net_device_stats [netdrvr] forcedeth: improved probe info; dev_printk() cleanups forcedeth: fix NAPI rx poll function
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Al Viro authored
AFAICS, fallout from repacing include of blkdev.h with include of bio.h. Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
This fixes a lost 'key' variable declaration that went missing in a mismerge (commit b981d8b3) Signed-off-by:
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Steffen Klassert authored
Some NICs (3c905B) can not generate PME in power state PCI_D0, while others like 3c905C can. Call pci_enable_wake() with PCI_D3hot should give proper WOL for 3c905B. Signed-off-by:
Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> Tested-by:
Harry Coin <hcoin@n4comm.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
version update Signed-off-by:
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Add a debugfs interface to look at internal ring state. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Add ability to read/write EEPROM Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Use internal stats structure Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Change how PHY is managed on SysKonnect fibre based boards. Poll for PHY coming up 1 per second, but use interrupt to detect loss. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Rather than bring network down/up when changing MTU, only need to impact receiver. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Hemminger authored
This fixes problems with transmit hangs on older fiber based SysKonnect boards. Adjust ram buffer sizing calculation to make it correct on all boards and make it like the code in sky2 driver. Signed-off-by:
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Li Yang authored
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Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes This fixes the new EMAC driver for the NAPI updates. The previous patch by Roland Dreier (already applied) to do that doesn't actually work. This applies on top of it makes it work on my test Ebony machine. This patch depends on "net: Add __napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll" posted previously. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jay Vosburgh authored
Two small fixes to IPoIB support for bonding: 1- copy header_ops from slave to bonding for IPoIB slaves 2- move release and destroy logic to UNREGISTER from GOING_DOWN notifier to avoid double release Set bonding to version 3.2.1. Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com> Signed-off-by:
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Auke Kok authored
Apparently poking the link status registers when autonegotiation is running on the PHY might botch the PHY link on 80003es2lan devices. While this is a very rare condition we can completely avoid it alltogether by just using the MAC link bits to provide the proper information to ethtool. Signed-off-by:
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Auke Kok authored
Spotted by Joe Perches. Signed-off-by:
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Marcus Meissner authored
The xl_laa array is just 6 bytes long, so we should substract 10 from the index, like is also done some lines above already. Signed-Off-By:
Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Garzik authored
A copy of struct net_device_stats now lives in struct net_device, making in-driver copies a waste of memory. Signed-off-by:Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Jeff Garzik authored
main change: * greatly improve per-NIC probe diagnostic output. Similar to other net drivers, print out MAC address, PHY info, and various hardware and software flags that may be relevant. other changes: * similar to other net drivers, only print the initial version message when we have found at least one board. * don't bother to print error message when pci_enable_device() fails, it will do so for us. * use dev_printk() rather than printk() in nv_probe(). This gives use a standardized output similar to the rest of the kernel, and eliminates the need to manually print out PCI bus id. * use DRV_NAME constant where appropriate * clean struct pci_driver indentation Signed-off-by:
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